Month: May 2025
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Riveting, cutting, punching and stabbing.
Minor painting happened, correcting a couple of the values on my portrait, and there was an attempt to recreate an old texture painting. I can’t remember how I did some of it, and there’s no notes, so there’s another top tip – make notes, don’t do what I do. I upgraded my tool stash today,…
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Going Grey
I have been procrastinating, and I procrastinated again today. In fairness, my procrastination took the form of other creative pursuits, rather than inventing housework, or doomscrolling, but it was still procrastination. I’m not even sure why I was procrastinating, because I knew exactly what my next steps were, with the exception of what I wanted…
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Gel Prints on Denim
I’m going through the Decisions Stage of my painting, so I didn’t some swatching and will do more tomorrow. The rest of my time was spent sorting my fabric stash, and doing a very basic inventory in my notes app. I have some ideas bubbling away, and so I wanted to reacquaint myself with what…
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Background Layers
I was hoping to get a bit more of this done today, but it was one of those days when there were deliveries due, and I just don’t settle until they are dealt with. This was made more frustrating because the second delivery made it to right outside my house, and I stood and watched…
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Charcoal and Texture
I don’t know why I don’t use charcoal more often, because I love using it. It’s especially yummy on my yummy textured piece. I’m using a selfie that I have used before as a reference for this one, and I am leaving it here for the day so I can walk in first thing and…
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Linocut Pictish Beastie
Two coats of gesso have unified the texture collage on the canvas, and I left it to dry overnight. I’m obsessed with the muslin texture, but I haven’t started painting on it, so I may change my mind soon enough. I dug out my linocut bits and pieces and reacquainted myself with not gouging pieces…
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Texture Yumminess
I started working on the canvas drill fabric I primed the other day. It’s around 12×16″, so larger than I have been working of late. I taped it to a board and plotted the basic layout in charcoal. The only reason I did this was to have a rough idea where the face is for…
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Stashing the Pretty
Much of today was about tidying and sorting and organising. It turns out when you buy a kilo of fabric remnants and fancy trims you have to find somewhere to store it. That task turned into a total overhaul of two shelving units so that things were easier to find, less dusty (!) and like…
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A Plan Comes Together-ish
There was a lot of pottering about with various things today, and the most photogenic is this one. I have nailed the printing and transparency aspect of this idea, and now I have to get the fiddly, very thin, very wet, very much wanting to cling to itself thing to land where I want it…
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Multiple Excitement
I’m excited about multiple things today. The first thing to note is that I cut another strip off that bolt of cotton canvas fabric I’ve had in my art/craft/hoard stash since the nineties and primed it. The pieces I primed a while back are still waiting for paint, but they are smaller, and I’m going…
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Planting Ideas and Things
I had an unplanned stint in the garden today because a pot luck box of Sedum cuttings arrived a day early. I’m not complaining. The box was stuffed with way more plants than I was expecting, and I’m not complaining about that either. Some of them are so tiny, but they are easy to get…
Thrummie Bizzum 